Campfire Stories: UltraSound! A Tribute for Moms

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• Sunday, May 11, 2025  7pm - 9pm

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Campfire Stories returns to the Modern for it’s 11th season! Join us under the ginkgos in the Modern courtyard every second Sunday to experience this intimate storytelling event. Visit themodernbar.com/reserve now to secure a table!

Campfire Stories is produced by Christian Winn, who has invited collaborators Rebecca Evans, Allison Maier, and Tomas Baiza to curate and host Season 11! We are thrilled for the opportunity to work with this amazing team.

Sunday, May 11 – Mother’s Day
Host: Rebecca Evans
Writers: Courtney Harler, Editor of Craft; Robert Birch, sharing novel-in-progress; Ed Wolf, sharing/performing memoir-in-progess.

Courtney Harler
Court(ney) Harler (she/her) is a queer writer, editor, and educator based in Northern Kentucky. She holds an MFA from University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe (2017) and an MA from Eastern Washington University (2013). Court is currently editor in chief of CRAFT Literary Magazine and editorial director for Discover New Art, and has read and/or written for UNT Press’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize, The Masters Review, Funicular Magazine, Reflex Fiction, and Chicago Literati in recent years. She also instructs and edits for Project Write Now, and formerly (co)hosted their podcast, PWN’s Debut Review. For her creative work, Court has been honored by fellowships and/or grants from Key West Literary Seminar, Writing By Writers, Community of Writers, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Nevada Arts Council. Court‘s work has been published in multiple genres in literary magazines around the world. Links to her publications and other related awards can be found at https://harlerliterary.llc. Find her on Instagram @CourtneyHarler.

Robert Birch
Born as a white, cis gender gay man on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabeg people, Birch was raised by the shores of the Otonabee River, which in Ojibwa means, “river that beats like a heart.” In the past four decades, he has participated in well over 10,000 hours of educational, community and ceremonial circles; has co-directed one of Canada’s most culturally diverse theatre companies; co-facilitated many week-long workshops on sex and intimacy initiated at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1990 by Harry Hay, one of the early founders of the LGBTQIA+ movement.

Birch continues to explore the intersections of personal narrative, performance ritual, social activism, emergency preparedness and community-food-security-farming with his playmate-husband, CrowDog on the Coast Salish lands known as Salt Spring Island, B.C. He has published chapters in five anthologies, essays in dozens of magazines, co-edited two editions of RFDmag.org as well as an arts-based academic journal entitled, The Annals of Gay Sexuality. www.robertbirch.ca

Ed Wolf
Ed Wolf was born in New York, the oldest of 10 children, and is featured in the award-winning documentary “We Were Here,” He’s told stories of growing up as a queer kid in Florida, attending the University of South Florida in the late 60s, life in New York’s Greenwich Village at the beginning of gay liberation, and the early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival), Molodist (Kiev International Film Festival) and Side-by-Side LGBT Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. He lives in Portland Oregon and is currently working on a memoir. You can read more of Ed’s stories at edwolf.substack.com